Northern white rhinoceros / rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni)
After initial release into the wild during first stage of rehabilitation - Jun 2010
Extinct in the wild - only eight left in captivity - critically endangered / threatened
This photograph is part of a portfolio illustrating a rescue operation to move four northern white rhinos from Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic to Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in a last-ditch effort to save the rarest mammal in the world from extinction.